Strong start for Ja’mie: Private School Girl as Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD slips for Seven
The return of Chris Lilley’s incarnation of Ja’mie in the new ABC1 series Ja’mie: Private School Girl averaged 924,000 viewers, winning its time slot, preliminary overnight ratings from OzTam show.
The show in which Lilley plays the teenage schoolgirl who first featured in Summer Heights High and We Can Be Heroes, outrated Seven’s superheroes action drama Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, Nine’s US import Hostages, and Ten’s Aussie beach drama Wonderland.
Agents of SHIELD dropped to 731,000 and Hostages fell to 556,000. Wonderland rated 499,000.
The success of Ja’mie was helped through inheriting a strong audience from the penultimate episode of Gruen Planet which was the top entertainment show of the night with 1.07m viewers.
Ja’mie first appeared in We Can Be Heroes and then Summer Heights High, not Angry Boys.
You’re quite right, Scott. The story has been amended.
Cheers,
Megan
Poor Ten!!
Ja’mie was first in We Can Be Heroes and Summer Heights High, not Angry Boys.
Ja’mie was perfect. Nothing is off limits for Chris Lilley. He always goes there… and then one step further. It’s awesome
Great night for ABC
While Chris Lilley’s work and talent is undeniably brilliant, I can’t help thinking that Ricky Wong (from “We can be heroes”), Jonah or Mr G (from Summer Heights High) would’ve been better characters to spin off into a new series. Wish him all the best with Ja’mie though.
The bitch is back! Those sad memories of being bullied by high school narcissists have flooded back.
Ja’mie: clever but not particularly funny. It also appears ther entire joke has been played out in the first episode. Is there any reason to continue watching?
Gruen Planet is the best show on TV- with Foreign Correspondent, Four Corners and Australian Story close behind- Thanks ABC1, sorry commercial networks, havent watched you for months!!!
I thought Ja’mie was bloody awful. Dull’s a compliment.
Yeah I didn’t last through the whole thing but a lot of people seemed to like it.
I hope he puts proper stories and character arcs in future episodes and that some of the other characters get a couple of lines here and there. He certainly doesn’t seem to write much for his cast.
Quality Australian drama is dead to viewers no one is watching so bad luck all you Aussie character actors the time has come to leave that behind and all become lame ole dancing with the stars stars or maybe try you luck at Australias got talent wannabee because thats all that is being watched.